Pop culture has a lot to teach us about successful creative campaigns. Reality dating shows, tabloid magazines, telenovelas, Bollywood movies, football matches, K-pop songs, video games, and that commercial you can’t get out of your head can all help you generate effective campaign ideas. Are we encouraging you to watch reality TV shows instead of …
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Artistic Activism Saves Democracy — With You!
Does the world feel like it’s on fire? Sure! But at the Center for Artistic Activism, we always believe that a better world is possible — and we’re going to build that world with you. Join us on June 10th in New York to hear inspiring stories from our Unstoppable Voters program of how we’ve …
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Newsletter: Creating Other Worlds
Newsletter sent on April 18, 2024. If you want to receive our weekly updates, sign up now! Hi friends, We are thrilled to tell you about a series of online talks that the Artistic Activism Research CoLab has been hosting recently. We’ve had some incredible sessions with experts in artistic activism from around the globe. …
How South African Sex Workers changed the conversation
Discover how one organization harnessed the power of artistic activism to revolutionize the sex worker movement in South Africa. From fake political campaigns to skeleton bureaucrats, learn how artistic activism can effect policy, shift narratives, and inspire change. Dive into the story of how SWEAT’s collaboration with the Center for Artistic Activism led to groundbreaking …
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Cleveland VOTES: How a Voting Advocacy Organization Develops a Cultural Strategy
Cleveland VOTES came to the Center for Artistic Activism in 2023 with a question: how could they, a civic engagement and voting advocacy organization, create a cultural strategy that would enable them to work with artists and other culture creators and together expand the ways in which Cleveland voters and communities participate in politics and …
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Who’s your Plus One?
Who do you know that could benefit from The Center for Artistic Activism? …. Connect us and you could each win a printed copy of The Art of Activism: Your All Purpose Guide to Making the Impossible Possible! HOW IT WORKS Tag anyone on Instagram who doesn’t (but should!) subscribe to our newsletter, and both …
Special Event! Arts + Civic Power
How Artists and Advocacy Groups Can Work Together to Supercharge Civic Engagement in 2024 This event has ended. Access the full recording, takeaways and more resources, here. We all know how important this year is for engaging voters. But with so many potential voters feeling apathetic and burned out on politics, how can we overcome …
Call for Applications: Development Consultant
Development Consultant The Center for Artistic Activism is looking for a Development Consultant contractor. The work will be remote and part-time (average of 20 hours per month, with potentially more time leading up to annual appeals). The hourly rate for this contract will be between $45.00 – $53.00, depending on experience level. About Us: The …
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Listen to us on Team Human!
We loved talking with the brilliant Douglas Rushkoff, one of the smartest and most curious thinkers about social change, technology, revolution, and culture. In this episode, Rushkoff — who is an Advisory Board Member of the Center — asks the best questions about how and why artistic activism works. We highly recommend his Team Human …
Call for Applications: Program Assistant
Program Assistant C4AA is seeking a Program Assistant to help the organization support artistic activism the world over. This is a temporary staff position until December 31, 2024, open to anyone authorized to work in the U.S. at 30-40 hours per week, working remotely (preferably in the NY, FL, and MD areas) on a flexible …
The Center Recommends: Art Works
💘 This week, the Center recommends “Art Works: How Organizers and Artists are Creating a Better World Together” (2023) by Ken Grossinger. According to our own Steve Duncombe, “focusing on stories of artists and organizers collaborating over a wide range of movements, in Art Works Ken Grossinger establishes the key principle for success when using …
Educators: Share the Powers of Art
We have a number of Powers of Art prints to send to educators to display in their classrooms. We have a number of Powers of Art prints to send to educators to display in their classrooms. If you’re an educator and would like to request a print, sign up below. Numbers are limited and prints …
Pop Culture Field Trips (Part 1 + 2)
Hi there, My name is Serena, and I’ve been working with the Communications Team here at the Center this summer. I have a confession: I grew up without television. Wait what?! This may seem like a strange way to introduce myself, (especially for someone halfway through the last year of a media studies degree!) but …
Creative Resistance Series
Our introductory podcast mini-series. The Creative Resistance Podcast Mini-Series introduces some of the theories, methods and principles of artistic activism to new audiences. You will learn about:
Ways to Win with Unstoppable Voters in 2024
We’re offering our widest range of programs yet to help you make the impossible possible next year Bold experimentation! Happy hours during the day! Workshops that will make a world of difference! We all know we’ll need to bring our best (and then some) to mobilize millions to the polls in 2024, to elect politicians …
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Open Call: Unstoppable Voters Fellowship
Want to bring more creativity and bold action to civic engagement work in 2024? Apply to join our Unstoppable Voters Fellowship for leaders at U.S. voting organizations! Receive one-of-a-kind training, mentorship, and hands-on support – and make the impossible possible. DEADLINE EXTENDED! Apply by November 28 Across the United States, civic engagement advocates are gearing up …
Open Call: Faculty Fellowship
Turn your higher education campus into a hub of creative civic engagement in 2024 Apply by November 1 Civically-engaged students change the world. From the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s to innovative methods to ensure climate justice today, students on college and university campuses have worked tirelessly to improve all of our lives. Yet …
Our Votes, Our Stories: Unstoppable Voters
Join our special workshops in collaboration with the Sam & Adele Golden Gallery’s exhibit on the importance of democracy Looking to get more involved in voting activism? Wanting to make real change but not sure where to start? Interested in meeting more engaged folks in your community? Join us in-person on November 1 from 6-8pm OR …
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Every Strike, Everywhere, All At Once!
Subscribe to receive bi-weekly newsletters like this one! Happy Labor Day ! We were talking with Daniel Scheinert, one of the amazing Daniels who directed Everything Everywhere All At Once. We were telling him about one of the ways we help advocates brainstorm new ideas. If you’ve been in our workshops, you know this exercise: …
LGBTQ+ Travel Alert Browser Extension
To celebrate #LGBTQTourismDay we are launching a NEW PROJECT: ❌ The LGBTQ+ Travel Alert Browser Extension! To celebrate #LGBTQTourismDay we are launching a NEW PROJECT: ❌ The LGBTQ+ Travel Alert Browser Extension! This browser extension (Now Available in the Chrome Store) alerts you before you book travel (and spend money) in regions with dangerously discriminatory laws like Uzbekistan, Uganda, …
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